Students training to be educators frequently exhibit voice disorders prior to employment. To date, there exist no similar studies of future speech-language pathologists (SLPs). The study is designed as a prospective, nonrandomized survey. The objective of this study is to determine the voice problems of first year graduate students training to be SLPs. Participants were 104 first year graduate ...

When analyzing singing voice signal, it is required to know the boundaries of each phonetic unit in the singing voice samples. However, due to prolonged vowels in the singing voice, it is not easy to accurately align a singing voice with the phonetic sequence of its lyrics by conventional speech recognition approach. This paper proposes a solution for the phonetic annotation of the singing voic...

-This paper evaluates suitable voice-data length in IP packets for the adjustment of VoIP network systems. Based on measurements in a real environment, we examined the voice-quality level while varying the voice-data length of IP packets under various network conditions. We found that a VoIP system with long-voice data has high-transmission efficiency but there is a high deterioration in the vo...

The main idea of this research is to process analog voice signal. The paper is implemented for controlling the robot by voice command. The implemented system involves voice recognition unit, digital data processing unit with DC switching section. The proposed system consists of a microcontroller and a voice recognition processor that can recognize a limited number of voice patterns. This is voi...

Creaky voice, also referred to as vocal fry, is a voice quality frequently produced in many languages, in both read and conversational speech. To enhance the naturalness of speech synthesis, these latter should be able to generate speech in all its expressive diversity, including creaky voice. The present study looks to exploit our recent developments, including creaky voice detection, predicti...

Voice in its inherent nature is variable. It is natural to use the VBR class for voice, and transmit voice in its bursty form. On an average, human voice has an speech activity factor of about 42%. This allows us to multiplex a lot of voice sources together. We study the degradation in voice quality under various scheduling policies for VBR voice. Our simulations showed that it is desirable to ...

Loss of voice after total laryngectomy propter laryngeal cancer disables a person to successfully communicate with patient environment and can lead to total isolation. Learning esophageal speech in some cases is not successful. Vocal prosthesis insertion can resolve this condition. This retrospective study shows voice and speech rehabilitation in patients after total laryngectomy and installati...

Voice is one of the most important means of communication and as such should be taken care of. The etiology of voice disorders is diverse. Due to the development of the society we live in, way of life, environmental factors, and exposure to pharmacological agents as well as demands we make towards our voice, there is a substantial growth in the number of people with voice disorders. We tasked o...

Contrary to expectations of a few years ago, voice mail or voice messaging technology has rapidly outpaced speech recognition and speech synthesis in applications for office automation. This growth is a result of rapid technological advances in such areas as computing technology and digital telephony. The falling cost of voice message storage, the power of computer control of messaging, and use...